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Additional round of tuberculosis testing planned for Butler HS Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 03:04 PM PST Health officials are planning on going back to the school to do skin tests on everyone who tested negative previously to make sure they have not turned positive. Chattanoogan.com - Chattanooga's source for breaking local news Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 03:03 PM PST The Hospital Authority Board, in a statement issued Wednesday, indicated it will push on with interviews of three finalists for president and CEO of Erlanger Health System and will make a decision "in the first quarter." Final Glance: Managed Care companies ap.org Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 03:02 PM PST Shares of some top managed care companies were mixed at the close of trading:Aetna fell $.06 or .1 percent, to $46.25.Cigna Corp. rose $1.70 or 3.2 percent, to $55.16.Coventry Health Care Inc. rose $.09 ... Final Glance: Health Care Equipment companies ap.org Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 03:02 PM PST Shares of some top health care equipment companies were up at the close of trading:Becton, Dickinson & Co. rose $1.26 or 1.6 percent, to $79.45.Covidien rose $.66 or 1.1 percent, to $58.40.Patterson rose ... Health-Plan Outreach Reduces Readmission Rate Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 03:01 PM PST   A randomized control study of 3,988 high-risk gastrointestinal, heart or lower respiratory patients by global health service company Cigna  found that prioritized, telephonic outreach by health plan case managers following hospital discharge reduced future readmissions by 22 percent. The results of the study are published in the December 2012 issue of the independent, peer-reviewed American ... Hillary Clinton Health Update: Secretary Of State 'Quite Active,' Talking To Staff Through Recovery Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 03:00 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been speaking with staff and reviewing paperwork from the New York hospital where she is recovering from a blood clot in her head, the State Department said Wednesday. Panel on mentally ill gun access releases report Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 02:59 PM PST Gun should be taken away from anyone who is found by a licensed health care provider, educator or police to be a threat, a panel studying firearms access by the mentally ill recommended Wednesday. Dignity Health hospitals to make staff size reductions Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 02:57 PM PST Dignity Health hospitals in the north state, including Mercy Mt. Shasta, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Mercy Redding, will be making a two percent reduction in its workforce by Jan. 31. Mandeville mental health hospital now under private management as opponents continue to fight Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 02:56 PM PST With the start of the new year, the hospital that for six decades made Mandeville synonymous with psychiatric care will have a new name and management structure. Under an agreement signed in early December, a Florida company on Wednesday formally... NIH concludes BU biolab poses minimal risk Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 02:55 PM PST The National Institutes of Health announced the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories pose a minimal risk to the community, according to a press release Wednesday. “The NIH conducted an exhaustive review of the lab and its findings were affirmed by an independent panel of eminent scientists on the Blue Ribbon Panel,” said Interim [...]

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